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Playing Youtube Video In Windows 8 App

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I have been trying to play a youtube video in a windows 8 html5 & javascript app with no luck! I tried copy pasting the code youtube provided for embedding videos in the body o

Solution 1:

YouTube has a beta program to provide some videos in HTML5. You can join it here . Once you have done that you should be able to embed HTML5 YouTube videos in a WebView control by navigating to the YouTube URL.

Flash videos cannot be displayed in a Metro style app.

Code for the webview control 

string htmlFragment =
@"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'>
            <html>
               <head>
                  <title>YouTubePagesample</title>
               </head>
               <iframe width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/{YoutubeID}' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>
               <body>
               </body>
            </html>;";
        this.webView.NavigateToString(htmlFragment);

Solution 2:

Use the setInnerHTMLUnsafe method as win 8 apps don't like the external JS being injected in the app. videoPlayer is the div which you want to add the embed to. 

 var content = '<iframe width="480" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8sPj0Ic8KQ8?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>' ;
 WinJS.Utilities.setInnerHTMLUnsafe(videoPlayer, content);

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